Tao is also great at building mathematical models of messy phenomena—here’s an article where he does a beautiful analysis of sailing: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/sailing-into-the-wind-or-faster-than-the-wind
I’d be surprised if he didn’t have some good insights about AI and alignment after thinking about it for a while.
+1000, that’s one of the main skills I really care about in conceptual alignment research, and Tao is great at it.
Tao is also great at building mathematical models of messy phenomena—here’s an article where he does a beautiful analysis of sailing: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/sailing-into-the-wind-or-faster-than-the-wind
I’d be surprised if he didn’t have some good insights about AI and alignment after thinking about it for a while.
+1000, that’s one of the main skills I really care about in conceptual alignment research, and Tao is great at it.